Tonight's guest judge on American Idol is Shania Twain -- in an hour of auditions from Chicago.Only an hour! That's the best news I've heard all day!Katelyn Epperly is the first contestant of the day. She will either be awesome...

An attorney litigating the issue and a burn doctor say some car seat warmers pose unnecessary risks to certain groups of people, including individuals with paralysis and other sensory issues, according to USA Today. The National Highway Traffic Safety...

The headline, "Hagel unveils military plan on climate threat" blew my mind. Have we gone completely insane? We need to fight real terrorists, not imaginary climate change right now.
After watching the Scott-Crist debate on Wednesday, the only thing I...

If you want to win an arms race, minor escalation is not the way to go. Only after President Ronald Reagan started developing a wildly expensive and impractical system to shoot down enemy missiles did the Soviet Union give up the Cold War.
The $900...

CANNES, France — The class envy raging through F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” helps to explain why teenage readers, usually assigned the book in school, fall under its spell. So sad about that doomed love, the kids sigh....

The Democrats have it all wrong when it comes to one of their choices for a new President Barack Obama bumper sticker:
"Like a Boss."
The Democrats foolishly think the phrase derives from an old rap song denoting cool competence. "Like a bowse" is how the young people pronounce it.
"'Like a Boss' is rockin' it," said Heather, a sophomore at the University of Illinois who explained it to me. "The phrase 'Like a Boss' is like kickin' it."
But I have no intentions of kicking anything, except perhaps some...

The 1907 Shriners convention in Los Angeles inspired all sorts of commemorative trinkets. Most of the items were pins, badges, glassware and ceramics, which frequently turn up on EBay. Hereâs something Iâve never seen before, a spoon that was evidently iss

âAinât It a Grand and Glorious Feeling?â by Clare Briggs. An undated postcard of the old Shrine Auditorium. Another postcard of the original Shrine Auditorium. Jan. 12, 1920: "Shrine Auditorium, for more than 12 years an architectural and historical land

The Times published a special edition of comics for the 1907 Shriners convention. A page of the May 6, 1907, Shriners comics, a parody of Winsor McCayâs popular strip âLittle Nemo in Slumberland," has been listed on EBay. Bidding starts at $20.

-- Bizarre new trend: Surfing with animals. Okay, we will accept that some dogs seem to actually enjoy the sport -- but what of other species that are seemingly less suited to surfing? Like, say, an alpaca? Peruvian surfer Domingo...